Music: Tenor Returns

Seven years ago, Beniamino Gigli, the tops in Italian tenors, left
Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in a huff over a salary cut.
Deploring his attitude (his pay was rumored to be almost $3,000 a
performance), the Met's managers tried many substitutes but found
nobody who could fill the bill. Last week Tenor Gigli was welcomed back
to the Met by a shouting throng. Critics still deplored his garlicky
mannerisms and found the part of Radames in Aida unsuited to him, but
had to admit that Tenor Gigli's singing was the finest Italian tenoring...